# Date: 1918-02-25

NOTED AT THE SEVENTH PARTY CONGRESS

"we," the Left, are always right; /
And this clever fellow Bukharin)
"Gritting teeth, one must—
quietly prepare forces"
(Radek)⁴

(a) analysis of the class source
of disagreement

tired peasant?
S-R.s, Mensheviks, K-D.s?

..."disgrace, dishonor, villainy"...

and
Trotsky
*The evacuation of Petrograd — one thing,
the construction of railways —
another. (Trotsky')...
And shall we sign
peace with Ukraine or with Svinhufudov?

"In a matter of months — no more
is the period of possible
delaying measured"
"this will be betrayal
in the true sense of the word"
(if we sign peace with Vinnichenko) [Trotsky]⁵

cf. Radek: there will be no shame,
no betrayal.⁶

Ryazanov: "Lenin cedes space
in order to gain time"⁷

[March 8, 1918]

"is war possible in the immediate future"....
demagogic formulation: one cannot send [people] to slaughter;
the treaty "stigmatizes" us in the eyes of the whole world
Bukharin: "ask any military man"⁸

¹ The passages noted here from the speech of N. I. Bukharin at the Seventh Party Congress on the question of war and peace (see "Protocols of Congresses and Conferences of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). Seventh Congress. March 1918." Giz. 1928, pp. 31, 36, 38, 39-41, 42), Lenin cites in his concluding remarks on the report on war and peace (see ibid., pp. 114, 116, 118).

* Passages from the speech of M. S. Uritsky at the Seventh Congress on the question of war and peace (see "Seventh Congress," pp. 43, 44, 45, 46) Lenin cites in his concluding remarks at the Seventh Congress (see ibid., p. 115).

³ This concerns the statement of "Left Communists" submitted to the Central Committee on February 23, which is given in the appendix to the article "Where the Error Lies" (see document 20, p. 52).

⁴ Passages from the speech of K. Radek at the Seventh Party Congress (see "Seventh Congress," pp. 60, 63 and Lenin's concluding remarks, ibid., pp. 115, 118).

⁵ From the speech of L. D. Trotsky at the Party Congress (see "Seventh Congress," pp. 73, 75 and Lenin's concluding remarks, ibid., pp. 117, 116).

⁶ From the speech of K. Radek (see ibid., p. 62).

⁷ From the speech of D. B. Ryazanov (see ibid., pp. 80, 114).

⁸ From the concluding remarks of N. I. Bukharin on the question of war and peace at the Seventh Party Congress (see ibid., pp. 105, 106, 108 and 118).